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Guide Part Number 9329-65979-00 REV A 07/18 Contents

What’s New in Pro Tools | First 2018.7...... 1 New Features and Enhancements ...... 1 System Requirements and Compatibility Information ...... 2 Conventions Used in This Guide ...... 2 Resources...... 3

Menu Updates ...... 4 Selection Improvements ...... 4 Search Popover for Insert, Side-Chain, Send Path, and Track Input and Output Path Selectors...... 6

Editing Improvements...... 10 Relative Grid Editing Enhancements for MIDI Notes and Clip Selections ...... 10 Edit Selection Improvements...... 11 Duplicate and Extend Selection Command...... 12

Miscellaneous Improvements ...... 13 Change Edit Scrolling Mode During Playback and Recording...... 13 Retrospective Record for MIDI Improvements ...... 13 Avid Audio EQ Plug-ins Supporting EQ Curve View ...... 13 Low Latency Monitoring Enhancements...... 13

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New Features and Enhancements Pro Tools® | First software version 2018.6 provides the following new features and enhancements.

Menu Updates

Menu Selection Improvements

Selecting Multiple Items in a Menu

Pro Tools | First lets you select multiple items in menus using the Command key (Mac) or the Control key (Windows).

Checkbox Pop-up Menus

Pro Tools | First provides menus that let you select (and deselect) multiple items without the menu closing.

Search Popover for Insert, Send Path, and Track Input and Output Path Selectors

This lets you quickly search and select the desired plug-in or audio signal path.

Editing Improvements

Relative Grid Editing Enhancements for Notes and Selections

With Relative Grid mode enabled, any offset between the nearest Grid line and the Edit selection start is retained when cutting or copying, and then pasting clips and MIDI notes.

Edit Selection Improvements

The now includes certain commands that were previously only available using keyboard shortcuts. Commands related to the Edit selection are organized in the Selection submenu.

Duplicate and Extend Selection Command

Pro Tools | First lets you duplicate the Edit selection (including all track data in the selection), keep the selection start, and extend the selection to the end of the duplicate. This facilitates working with audio loops and repeating MIDI content.

Miscellaneous Improvements

Change Edit Window Scrolling Mode During Playback and Recording

Pro Tools | First lets you change the Edit Window Scrolling mode during playback and recording without interrupting the transport.

Retrospective Record for MIDI Improvements

Pro Tools | First provides improved Retrospective Record for MIDI when punch recording and with MIDI Thru buffering.

Avid Audio EQ Plug-in Support for EQ Curve

EQ Curve view in the Mix window is now supported by more Avid Audio EQ plug-ins.

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What’s New in Pro Tools | First 2018.7 System Requirements and Compatibility Information Avid can only assure compatibility and provide support for hardware and software it has tested and approved.

For complete system requirements and a list of qualified computers, operating systems, hard drives, and third-party devices, visit: www.avid.com/compatibility

Conventions Used in This Guide Pro Tools documentation uses the following conventions to indicate menu choices, keyboard commands, and mouse commands:

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Convention Action

File > Save Choose Save from the

Control+N Hold down the Control key and press the N key

Control-click Hold down the Control key and click the mouse but- ton

Right-click Click with the right mouse

The names of Commands, Options, and Settings that appear on-screen are in a different font.

The following symbols are used to highlight important information:

User Tips are helpful hints for getting the most from your Pro Tools system.

Important Notices include information that could affect your Pro Tools project data or the performance of your Pro Tools system.

Shortcuts show you useful keyboard or mouse shortcuts.

Cross References point to related sections in this guide and other Avid documentation.

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What’s New in Pro Tools | First 2018.7 Resources The Avid website (www.avid.com) is your best online source for information to help you get the most out of Pro Tools.

Account Activation and Product Registration Activate your product to access downloads in your Avid account (or quickly create an account if you do not have one). Register your purchase online, download software, updates, documentation, and other resources. www.avid.com/account

Support and Downloads Contact Avid Customer Success (technical support), download software updates and the latest online manuals, browse the Compatibil- ity documents for system requirements, search the online Knowledge Base or join the worldwide Avid user community on the User Con- ference. www.avid.com/support

Training and Education Study on your own using courses available online, find out how you can learn in a classroom setting at an Avid-certified training center, or view video tutorials and webinars. www.avid.com/education

Video Tutorials The Get Started Fast with Pro Tools series of online videos provide tutorials to help if you are new to Pro Tools. They also provide vid- eos for the experienced user that introduce new features found in the latest versions of Pro Tools. www.avidblogs.com/get-started-fast-with-pro-tools/

Products and Developers Learn about Avid products, download demo software, or learn about our Development Partners and their plug-ins, applications, and hardware. www.avid.com/products

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What’s New in Pro Tools | First 2018.7 Menu Updates

Menu Selection Improvements To simplify and speed up many session configuration tasks, Pro Tools lets you select multiple items in certain selector menus without closing the menu. Similarly, a few other selector menus now provide popover checklist menus.

Selecting Multiple Items in a Menu Pro Tools lets you select multiple items in the following menus using a key modifier: • Track Send selectors • Track Output selectors

To select (or deselect) multiple items in a menu without closing the menu:

1 Control-click (Mac) or Start-click (Windows) to select (or deselect) multiple items in the menu.

Selecting multiple Send output assignments

2 To close the menu and assign the selected items, do one of the following: • Press Return (Mac) or Enter (Windows). • Click anywhere outside the menu. • Press Escape.

Send with “+” indicating multiple output assignments

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Menu Updates Checkbox Popover Menus Pro Tools uses popover menus, letting you select (and deselect) multiple items without closing the menu, for the following: • Edit Window View selector • Mix Window View selector • Edit Window menu and Right-click menu • Transport Window menu and Right-click menu • (for show/hide of columns)—replaces Command-click (Mac) and Control-click (Windows) functionality

Edit window Track view selector popover menu

Workspace, show/hide columns

Additionally, you can use the following key modifiers with popover checklist menus:

To check (or uncheck) all popover menu items:

 Option-click (Mac) or Alt-click (Windows) any menu item.

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Menu Updates To check (or uncheck) a range of popover menu items:

1 Shift-click the menu item you want at the start of the selection range.

2 Shift-click another menu item you want at the end of the selection range.

Search Popover for Insert, Side-Chain, Send Path, and Track Input and Output Path Selectors Rather than always having to click and select a desired plug-in, side-chain (key-input), or send, input, or output path, Pro Tools lets you click the selector and type a few characters to quickly locate the plug-in or audio signal path you want (without having to navigate with the mouse through long lists of plug-ins or audio signal paths). The first match for whatever you typed is selected automatically. This can be especially helpful when working on systems that have a lot of plug-ins installed or have large mixers with many audio signal paths. Track Presets can also be found using Search for inserts and sends.

Search Popover Selecting Search presents a Search popover menu. This menu is divided into two sections: Search on top and Search results below. A maximum of 20 Search results can be shown for any given query.

Search query

Search results

Search popover menu for a plug-in insert

Tags for Assigned Paths Pro Tools lets you assign multiple paths for Sends and Track Outputs. When assignments are added from the search results, they appear as tags in the search query. Only a single insert or input can be assigned, but multiple send and output assignments can be made. You can remove any one of these by clicking the X to the right of the path name or by selecting one and pressing Delete (Mac) or Backspace (Windows). If all tags are removed, all assignments are removed.

Send Output assignments

Send output assignments in the Send Search query

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Menu Updates Plug-in Insert Search

To find a plug-in in an Insert selector by typing:

1 Click the insert selector on a track where you want to insert a plug-in and do one of the following: • Click Search. • Press . • Type the first few letters of the plug-in name that you want.

Searching Insert selector

2 Type the first few letters of the plug-in name that you want. Only plug-ins whose names start with those letters now appear in the list (maximum of 20).

Search Insert selector, typing “Pro “ in the Search popover menu to find a plug-in

3 Select the desired plug-in with the mouse, or use the Up and Down arrow keys to select the plug-in name.

Navigating search results using the Up and Down Arrow keys

4 Press Return (Mac) or Enter (Windows) to insert the selected plug-in.

You can also search Track Presets by name from the Insert selector. Depending on the preset, this lets you insert multiple pre-configured inserts on the track.

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Menu Updates Send, Track Input, and Track Output Path Search

To search for a path in a Send, Input, or Output selector:

1 Click the path selector for the send, input, or output you want to assign and do one of the following: • Click Search. • Press Tab. • Type the first few letters of the path name that you want.

Searching a path selector (send, input, or output)

2 Type the first few letters of the path name that you want. Only paths whose names start with those letters now appear in the list (max- imum of 20).

Searching a path selector, typing to find a path

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Menu Updates 3 Select the desired path with the mouse, or use the Up and Down arrow keys to select the path name.

Searching a path selector, single path found by typing the first letters of its name

4 Do one of the following: • Press Return (Mac) or Enter (Windows) again to close the selector menu. • Click anywhere outside the menu.

You can also search Track Presets by name from the Sends selector. (Track Presets are not available from the Track Input or Output selectors.)

To search for and assign multiple paths (Sends and Track Outputs only):

1 Type to search for each additional path assignment, do one of the following: • Tab to confirm current tag that you are typing. • Press Shift+R. • Click the entry.

2 Press Return to close the selector menu and assign the outputs.

Searching and assigning multiple outputs

Option-click (Mac) or Alt-click (Windows) to assign sends or outputs to the same path for all tracks of the same type.

Option-Shift-click (Mac) or Alt-Shift-click (Windows) to assign sends or outputs to the same path for all selected tracks.

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Menu Updates Editing Improvements

Relative Grid Editing Enhancements for MIDI Notes and Clip Selections With Relative Grid mode enabled, Pro Tools maintains any Relative Grid offset from the nearest grid line for audio clip selections and MIDI notes when pasting cut or copied audio or MIDI data. Relative Grid mode must be enabled when pasting.

Pasting Audio with Relative Grid Offset Pro Tools maintains any Relative Grid offset when pasting cut or copied audio.

To paste cut or copied audio while maintaining Relative Grid offset:

1 Enable Relative Grid mode.

2 Select and Cut or Copy audio that has a Relative Grid offset.

3 Place the Edit insertion at the grid location where you want to paste the audio.

4 Choose Edit > Paste.

The audio is pasted at the grid location, but with the same Relative Grid offset as the cut or copied audio.

Pasting MIDI with Relative Grid Offset Pro Tools maintains any Relative Grid offset when pasting cut or copied MIDI data.

To paste cut or copied MIDI notes while maintaining Relative Grid offset:

1 Enable Relative Grid mode.

2 In Notes view, select and Cut or Copy MIDI that has a Relative Grid offset.

3 Place the Edit insertion at the grid location where you want to paste the cut or copied MIDI notes.

4 Choose Edit > Paste.

The MIDI notes are pasted at the grid location, but with the same Relative Grid offset as the cut or copied MIDI notes.

Merge MIDI with Relative Grid Offset Pro Tools maintains any Relative Grid offset when merging cut or copied MIDI data.

To merge cut or copied MIDI notes while maintaining Relative Grid offset:

1 Enable Relative Grid mode.

2 In Notes view, select and Cut or Copy MIDI that has a Relative Grid offset.

3 Place the Edit insertion at the grid location where you want to merge the cut or copied MIDI notes.

4 Choose Edit > Paste Special > Merge.

The MIDI notes are merged with any existing MIDI at the grid location, but with the same Relative Grid offset as the cut or copied MIDI notes.

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Editing Improvements Edit Selection Improvements The Edit menu now includes certain commands that were previously only available using keyboard shortcuts. Commands related to the Edit selection are organized in the Selection submenu as follows:

Move Edit Left Moves the entire current Edit selection to the left by the duration of the selection.

Press Command+Option+Control+L (Mac) or Control+Alt+Start+L (Windows); in Commands Keyboard focus, press L.

Move Edit Right Moves the entire current Edit selection to the right by the duration of the selection.

Press Command+Option+Control+’ (single quote) (Mac) or Control+Alt+Start+’ (single quote) (Windows); in Commands Keyboard focus, press ’ (single quote).

Halve Selection Maintains the current Edit selection start time but reduced its duration by half.

Press Command+Option+Control+Shift+L (Mac) or Control+Alt+Start+Shift+L (Windows).

Double Selection Maintains the current Edit selection start time and doubles its duration.

Press Command+Option+Control+Shift+’ (Mac) or Control+Alt+Start+Shift+’ (Windows).

Duplicate and Extend Selection See Duplicate and Extend Selection Command.

Move Edit Up Moves the Edit selection up one track. If more than one track is included in the current Edit selection, those tracks are re- moved from the selection and the selection is only on the one track.

Press Control+P (Mac) or Start+P (Windows); in Commands Keyboard focus, press P.

Move Edit Down Moves the Edit selection down one track. If more than one track is included in the current Edit selection, those tracks are removed from the selection and the selection is only on the one track.

Press Control+; (semicolon) (Mac) or Start+; (semicolon) (Windows); in Commands Keyboard focus, press ; (semicolon).

Extend Edit Up Extends the Edit selection up one track.

Press Control+Shift+P (Mac) or Start+Shift+P (Windows).

Extend Edit Down Extends the Edit selection down one track.

Press Control+Shift+; (semicolon) (Mac) or Start+Shift+; (semicolon) (Windows).

Remove Edit from Top Removes the top track from the Edit selection.

Press Option+Control+P (Mac) or Alt+Start+P.

Remove Edit from Bottom Removes the bottom track from the Edit selection.

Press Option+Control+; (Mac) or Alt+Start+; (semicolon).

Refer to the Shortcuts Guide.pdf (Help > Pro Tools Shortcuts) for a complete list of Pro Tools keyboard shortcuts.

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Editing Improvements Duplicate and Extend Selection Command Pro Tools lets you duplicate the Edit selection (including all track data in the selection), keep the selection start, and extend the selection to the end of the duplicate. This facilitates working with audio loops and repeating MIDI content.

To duplicate the Edit selection, maintain the current selection start, and extend the selection to end of the duplicate, do one of the following:

 Choose Edit > Selection > Duplicate And Extend Selection.

 Press Command+Option+Control+Shift+D (Mac) or Control+Alt+Start+Shift+D (Windows).

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Editing Improvements Miscellaneous Improvements

Change Edit Window Scrolling Mode During Playback and Recording Pro Tools lets you change the Edit Window Scrolling mode during playback and recording. With the transport running, select the de- sired Edit Window Scrolling mode from Options > Edit Window Scrolling (No Scrolling, After Playback,orPage). The Edit Window Scrolling mode updates without interrupting the Transport.

Retrospective Record for MIDI Improvements

Punch Recording and Retrospective Record for MIDI Retrospective Record for MIDI captures your performance regardless of the recording mode. When applying Retrospective Record for MIDI, MIDI performances are placed at the exact Timeline location of the performance on the appropriate MIDI or Instrument track even when punch recording. (In lower versions of Pro Tools, there were issues with Retrospective Record and punch recording.)

MIDI Thru Improvements During playback, if the Default Thru Instrument is set to Follows First Selected MIDI Track (Setup > Preferences > MIDI), matching MIDI data is buffered for the first selected MIDI track. Likewise, matching MIDI data is buffered for each record-enabled MIDI (or In- strument) track. So, when applying Retrospective MIDI Record, MIDI data is recalled from each track buffer on a track-by-track basis.

Avid Audio EQ Plug-ins Supporting EQ Curve View In addition to EQ III and Channel Strip, the following Avid Audio EQ plug-ins now support EQ Curve view in the Mix window: • Focusrite D2 • Pultec EQP-1A • Pultec EQH-2 • Pultec MEQ-5 • VC5

Low Latency Monitoring Enhancements Pro Tools | First Core Audio and ASIO systems provide the following enhancements with Low Latency Monitoring: • Software monitoring is automatically disabled for all TrackInput Monitoring–enabled tracks. • Software monitoring is automatically disabled for all Record-enabled tracks.

This lets you use hardware monitoring with any output channels on your audio interface without having to re-configure your session.

Previously when Low Latency Monitoring was enabled, software monitoring was disabled only for tracks assigned to physical outputs 1 or 2 on your audio interface.

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Miscellaneous Improvements Technical Support (USA) Product Information Visit the Online Support Center For company and product information, at www.avid.com/support visit us on the web at www.avid.com